How would you manage the current situation?

[iseah100 5,612]

Bench some players that have been underperforming to let them know no ones spot is secure. Besides Hazard, Cesc, Matic, and Costa. Play Luis more AND FUCKING ROTATION

[cosmicway 1,333]

Tottenham almost went ahead at the bridge last Saturday - Newcastle were more lucky.

I liked the way we went after the equaliser against Newcastle -and we did pull one back.

Before the 0-1, I just think our approach was too girly: Little flicks, itchy bitchy teenie winnie stuff - the other teams don't suck all that much !
The players should know better. Work, or it's AC Milan (*) - Qatar - Kazakhstan next for you.

(*) post Berlusconi as well

[bethos1 802]

Play Luis more AND FUCKING ROTATION

This please, we have a world class LB in Luis why does he barely start? I really want to see Luis and Azpi playing together.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

I want to see Luis Terry Ivan and Azpi playing at the same time, at least once in my life. It is still too much to ask...

[quickpassnmove 924]

Drop Cahill.

Ivanovic and Terry as CBs, Luis and Azpilicueta as FBs.

Matic and Fabregas as the first choice pivot but Ramires should get significant game time especially in big games.

Hazard and Willian on the wings and Oscar as #10, but I would have them interchange more as all of them can play #10, RW and LW.

Costa is the clear starter at ST with 11 goals, but if he suffers a clear dip in form, Remy should be starter with Drogba still as the supersub.

I'll just add that even though I'm not much of a Mikel fan, I don't see any problem with rotating him in more; it's the forwards that need to produce more (aside from Costa and Hazard). I'm still in favor of getting another winger/wide attacking mid if Schuerrle just won't settle with Costa and the rest of the starters. Willian just seems to need a little something (mental?) that he's lacking at the moment.

Overall, Chelsea just aren't over this "hump" yet that began sometime back in 2007 and reached its peak with January of 2011 and many months thereafter. Or, to put it less kindly, Chelsea are lucky that Aguero is injured again.

[Mustafa 885]

Well fuck me eh?? Here's me thinking Gary Cahill is our best CB and has been so reliable for us since he's got here. Granted he hasn't been great this season... but MAN are we putting him to the sword after this Newcastle defeat. Yes he did screw up and probably should be out of action for a couple games due to his poor performances of late. But people on here are acting like he's never been a good defender and that he is complete and utter wank. Every single player in the world goes through rough patches. We can't just verbally abuse the fuck out of him and retract all support we had for him because he f'd up.

I'm shocked...

[didierforever 7,349]

- what would you say to the players to motivate them? Or stimulate them?

i dont think the players lacked motivation. just tell them to be more clinical in front of the goal. trust in their ability and go out their.

- will you drop anyone for Luis?

NO. i find it shocking that after 400+mins of football with no goal conceded, we are all so adamant to see FL in the team. i would "rotate" more often but our main back 4 remains the same.

- when everyone is fit again, including Ramires, would you give him a starting spot?

rambo is a very important player for us. in matches like soton (A), spurs (a), he would automatically select himself.

- how to replace Cesc for the Hull game?

rambo. push oscar way forward (i thought he was TOOOOO deep against newcastle. we were probably playing 4-3-3 anyways to cover for matic's abscence).

- which players would you give more minutes? (e.g Remy, Schurrle, Salah)

remy and schurrle. schurrle for sure. as good as willian's play and workrate is, his finish is just abysmal. schurrle on the other hand makes up for his lack of general play with goals. i think schurrle has been underused a lot this season.

- try another formation in away games (4-3-3)

i think we pretty much played a 4-3-3 against newcastle. and in every big game, we start with rambo on the wing to provide those extra legs in the mid anyways.

- do you want to see other players in the starting line up instead of others?

our rest of the away games are a different test from the last 2. stoke will be similar but soton, swansea and spurs all like to play football. they wont be parking the bus but rather trying to play football too. we need a solution currently for the stoke match. losing points there will be a massive blow and change the title race on its head.

[Paul1970 250]

For fuck sake...we only lost one game...we will lose a few more.

[Special Juan 28,088]

For me there isn't a 'Situation' we lost, fair and square, Jose has lost before, Chelsea have lost before.....

We have the best manager in the world and he will react and so will the players. Of course switching things may happen, players dropped etc but it's far from a crisis some think it is, it's one fucking loss.

Could be worse, could be Arsenal.

[lionsden 4,689]

This is hilarious. Did some posters on here actually expect us to go the entire season unbeaten?

historically speaken, the eventual league winner's form is usually 4 or 5 winning streak accompanied by either a draw or defeat followed by another winning streak throughout the season and occassionally hit a bad run of form where they only win like 2 games out of 5 or 6. That's how it's always been, even the invincibles drew many games and dropped alot of point (24 to be precise) despite going the entire season unbeaten.

There's absolutely no reason to panic as far as I'm concerned, not yet anyway. this is the premier leeague and all teams will drop points every other week, the title will be determined by which team drops the fewest number of points. I can guarantee that the eventual winner this year will drop atleast 22 points. so far we have only dropped 9 points. so we are still on the right track, until the wheels actually fall off, I see no reason to panic.

[Strike 7,474]

Ivanovic at Centre back. Cahill sits out a couple

[dUMB 189]

EASY.

Sign Thiago. haha

Alcantara? LOL

On the other hand, Thiago Silva would be great, but he's not for sale I think.